Zoologist exploring animal iconography via intersections of natural history with art & visual culture history. AKA Deniz (she/they), PhD student @ UD. https://linktr.ee/arthistoryanimalia
#SharkWeek2024 🦈:
1. Bill Reid (Haida, 1920-1998)
#Dogfish Brooch, 1959
22kt Gold, 3" H x 1 ½" W
douglasreynoldsgallery.com/collections/...
2. Charles Edenshaw (Haida, c. 1839–1920)
Qqaaxhadajaat (The Dogfish Woman), 1897
Tattoo design: colored pencil on paper, 28 x 23.5 cm
AMNH archives Z/26
Another belated happy birthday to Alexander Wilson, aka “the father of American #ornithology,” born #OTD (Scotland 6 July 1766 – USA 23 August 1813)
Vol.1, Pl.1: “Blue Jay; Yellow-Bird or Goldfinch; Baltimore Bird”
from Wilson’s _American Ornithology_, 9 vols., Philadelphia, 1808-1814.
#BirdsInArt
A belated happy birthday to Marc Chagall, born #OTD (Belarus 6 July 1887 – France 28 March 1985)
The Blue Bird, 1968 lithograph after a 1954 painting
715 x 526 mm (sheet)
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...#BirdsInArt
Important #frog fan club news: Kohls (USA) has Frog and Toad plushies for $5 each (+ proceeds go to charity) grab your amphibimates before they’re gone 🤗🥰
#WorldFireflyDay:
Furisode with Fireflies & Irises
Japan, Edo period, 18th c.
silk crepe, paste-resist dyed, embroidery
National Museum of Japanese History (photographed on display at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhbition at NGA DC in 2019)
#JapaneseArt
#WorldFireflyDay:
Shiokawa Bunrin (Japan,1808-77)
Fireflies at River's Edge
Hanging scroll, ink & color on silk
LACMA collection - photographed on display at “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art” exhibition at National Gallery of Art DC in 2019
#JapaneseArt
#FrogFriday 🐸:
“Netsuke of a mother #toad and young”
(Or, more likely, mating toads 😏)
Japan, 19th c.
Carved wood, inlaid glass, inlaid brass
1 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 2 in (3.2 x 3.8 x 5.1 cm)
Johnson Museum of Art 96.037.031:
museum.cornell.edu/collections/...
#WatercolorWednesday :
Margaret B. L. Cockburn (1829-1928)
Gallus sonneratii | Jungle cock [Vol. 2, Plate 24]
28 x 22 cm
From Original watercolour drawings of Neilgherry birds, plants, insects, eggs, feathers and people. 1858-1862, 3 vols.
NHM London: nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/de...
Watch in the form of a #butterfly
Swiss, c.1840–50
Case of gold, enamel, pearls
2 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (6.7 x 3.2 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 17.101.84:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#WorldPorcupineDay :
William De Morgan (English, 1839-1917)
Triple Lustre Tile decorated in the “#Porcupine” design, 1898
Earthenware, 15.3x15.3cm
Provenance:”Purchased by the Earl of Balfour (UK Prime Minister 1902-5) directly from William De Morgan, thence by descent.”
www.bada.org/object/willi...
